Dropping a sorbent into pharmaceutical packaging is a traditional and time-honored method for preventing product damage from moisture, and maintaining shelf life and drug product efficacy. However, new pharmaceutical formulations and packaging configurations, coupled with the ever-present pressures to speed new drugs to market, are requiring that sorbents become intelligent. Rather than simply serving as a moisture absorber, sorbents need to fit the role of environmental managers, providing a specific range or steady-state level of protection to pharmaceutical packaging that is increasingly taking different and more innovative shapes.

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